2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Blow the whistle on former model (6)

4 I’m leading a couple to cause damage (6)

8 Enraged buccaneer losing his head (5)

9 Summon worker to procession (7)

10 Over-emotional girl left home (7)

11 Film star in element spurning female (5)

12 Posted soldiers inside it show emotion (9)

17 Priest loses his head — it’ sa crime (5)

19 Back horse with no front and back (7)

21 Boy who can get us a gold, perhaps? (7)

22 Concerning a spell (5) 23 Assimilate joke heard after I’d turned back (6)

24 Chess piece thrown by the French (6)

DOWN

1 Puzzle in game worked out (6)

2 Sent up a mad cartoon strip (7)

3 Appropriate stamp with head of tsar inset (5)

5 Tycoon gives degree to foreign agent (7)

6 A bit to one side (5)

7 Give up work and go to bed (6)

9 Writer on African river steamship, skint (9)

13 Puzzle made of puns, only endless (7)

14 Expel assembly (4, 3)

15 Frank in prison took action (6)

16 Recent development gives heart (6)

18 Good man 'eld up, taken for a ride (5)

20 Help up an upset girl (5)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Bring to light (6)

4 Damage (6)

8 Angry (5)

9 Colourful historical procession (7)

10 Insincerely emotional (7) 11 Dramatic performer (5) 12 Emotion (9)

17 Causing fires deliberately (5)

19 Approve (7)

21 Kirk ___, “Spartacus” star (7) 22 Concerning (5)

23 Absorb (6)

24 Medieval fortress (6)

DOWN

Baffling mystery (6) 1 2 Cartoon strip featuring

Charlie Brown and Snoopy (7) 3 Misappropriate (5)

5 Mogul (7)

6 Separated (5)

7 Finish your working life (6) 9 Bankrupt (9)

13 Astound (7)

14 Appearance (7)

15 Blunt (6)

16 Core (6)

18 Hurt by a bee or wasp (5) 20 ___ Ross, Motown legend (5)